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If Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds ever gets remade, Rose Byrne will NOT be the next Tippi Hedren!

While on the set of I Give It a Year, Rose's character is wooed by fellow Aussie Simon Baker with a live dove.

Unfortunately, that's when she found out she had ornithophobia, a fear of birds!

Poor gurl!!!

Rose states:

I was petrified. I was slightly unprepared, but I have a fear of birds, I discovered, and the scene, unfortunately, was hijacked by this fear. It was intense. It was like a weird acting exercise, where I had to focus on my objective while being completely physically overtaken. It was really weird.

And in a new interview published on Thursday, the college student admitted that she received a ton of hateful messages -- including death and rape threats -- following the crybaby candidate's digital tantrum.

The now-19-year-old explained to The Washington Post that she couldn't have anticipated the kind of backlash she received, saying: